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enProf. Nara Milanich comments on Chile's Casa Nacional del Niñohttp://www.barnard.edu/headlines/prof-nara-milanich-comments-chiles-casa-nacional-del-nino
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-104" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Caribbean, Central and South America</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-40" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">rights</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><img alt="" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/images/inline/milanich.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 1em 1em 0pt; width: 160px; height: 146px;" title="" />In <em><a href="http://diario.latercera.com/2011/11/26/01/contenido/pais/31-91864-9-la-larga-historia-tras-la-casa-nacional-del-nino.shtml">La Tercera</a></em>, a top Chilean newspaper, history professor Nara Milanich is quoted about the 250th anniversary of Casa Nacional del Niño, a child welfare institution in Santiago. Her book, <em><span id="btAsinTitle">Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930</span></em>i, is also referenced. Here is an excerpt from the article, which is in Spanish:</p>
<p>"Nara Milanich, historiadora estadounidense especialista en temas de América Latina y Chile, escribió el libro <i>Children of Fate</i>, en el cual relata la infancia en esta institución en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX, por el cual pasaron en esa época cerca de 51 mil niños marcados por la desigualdad. Cuenta que en ocasiones, entre la ropa de los niños abandonados había cartas.</p>
<p>"Te llamas Julio Ernesto del Rosario Rodríguez, nacido el 18 de noviembre de 1887. Te pongo ahí por haber quedado en la última miseria y con dos hermanos más. Tú como más chiquito, me veo en la obligación de echarte a los huérfanos".</p>
<p>Milanich relata que con estas cartas se enteraban por qué dejaban a los niños. "En general, la causa del abandono era la pobreza. Muchas eran madres solas que trabajaban como empleadas domésticas y que era el segundo o tercer hijo. Había patrones que dejaban los hijos de sus empleados, como Máximo Jeria, que pidió que cuidaran al hijo de su cocinera", dice."</p>
<p><a href="https://barnard.edu/profiles/nara-milanich">Prof. Milanich</a>'s scholarly interests include modern Latin America (especially Chile), comparative history of the family, legal history, childhood, gender, and state formation. She also teaches in the new Masters in Latin American Studies (MARSLAC) at Columbia.</p>
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</div></div></div>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:45:16 +0000avine9348 at http://www.barnard.eduFREE-RANGE KIDS: Why does an old-fashioned childhood sound so radical?http://toddlers.barnard.edu/events/free-range-kids-why-does-old-fashioned-childhood-sound-so-radical
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Annual Julia Howe Ward Child Development Lecture</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Tuesday, April 26, 2011</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventtimedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">6:30-8:30pm</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Diana Center, Event Oval</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-3" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">lecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-135" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Toddler Center</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-92" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">adolescents</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-65" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">children</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-136" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">toddlers</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><img alt="" class="image-inline_medium" src="http://toddlers.barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/inline_medium/public/images/inline/poster_photo.jpg" title="" /></p>
<p>A Lecture by Lenore Skenazy, founder of the book, blog and movement, "Free-Range Kids."</p>
<p>Lenore Skenazy is a big city newspaper columnist (16 years total at the New York Daily News and New York Sun) who has written for everyone from The Times of London to Mad Magazine -- yes, <em>that </em> Mad Magazine. She also spent several years on TV, first at CNBC and then at The Food Network. And before all THAT she got her B.A. from Yale and M.A. from Columbia.</p>
<p>Everything changed in 2008, when she wrote a column about letting her 9-year-old take the subway alone. Two days later she found herself on “The Today Show,” MSNBC, Fox News and NPR – and then on media worldwide -- defending herself against charges she’s “America’s Worst Mom.” (But Google that and there she is, for 35 pages.) She launched the blog, “Free-Range Kids” and went on to write the book by the same name, to explain her parenting philosophy: Safety is good! Car seats, seat belts, helmets – great! But our kids do NOT need a security detail every time they leave the house.</p>
<p>Since then she has lectured about “Free-Range Kids” everywhere from the Sydney Opera House to a convention of bus drivers in Portland, Ore. She’s been on “Dr. Phil,”“The View” and pretty much every show except Oprah (and now it’s too late!!). The rest of the time she lives in New York City with her husband and two sons, Morry, 14 and Izzy, 12, who are not quite as Free-Range as she’d like, but she’s working on it. And it helps that her older son just lost his iPod Touch, so now he has to come up with something else to do besides just sitting there, staring at it. </p>
<p>One thing she understands: None of us is a perfect parent.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2011-04-26T11:00:00-04:00">Apr 26 2011 - 11:00am</span></div></div></div>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:00:00 +0000eelsass4029 at http://www.barnard.eduEmily-Anne Rigal '16: Activist and Entrepreneurhttp://www.barnard.edu/news/emily-anne-rigal-16-activist-and-entrepreneur
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-89" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">film</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-123" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">mentoring</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-141" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">internship</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-18" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">gender</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-17" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">women</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-48" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">mentor</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-37" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">New York</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-146" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Social Media</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-92" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">adolescents</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/616" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">girls</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Emily-Anne is the founder and director of the nonprofit program <a href="http://westophate.org/">We Stop Hate</a>, dedicated to raising self-esteem in teens through social media. </p>
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</div></div></div>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 20:54:50 +0000rdouglas31426 at http://www.barnard.eduKeeping Public Schools Publichttp://www.barnard.edu/headlines/keeping-public-schools-public
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-179" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">alumnae</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-36" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">education</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-4" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">politics</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><img alt="Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett" class="image-inline_large" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/inline_large/public/images/inline/bartlett.publicschl.illo_.jpg" style="float:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0;" title="Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett" />On February 24, the New York City Department of Education released data pertaining to public-school teacher evaluations. News outlets such as the New York Post and NY1 published this performance data for 12,170 fourth- through eighth-grade English and math teachers.</p>
<p>Intense debate quickly arose—with parents calling for the termination of low-scoring teachers, teachers asserting that the data was inaccurate, and even presidential candidates weighing in with their views. Similar debates have arisen around the country as increased emphasis has been placed on standardized testing and blame for this country’s diminished position as an international leader in education has largely been placed on teachers</p>
<p>Three days prior to the release of the New York data, Diane Ravitch, former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush and now a research professor of education at New York University, provided insight into the issues. The lecture “Is Public School a Public Good or a Shoestore?” was an event in the Public Good series, a multi-year, interdisciplinary project at the College.</p>
<p>Ravitch is the author of several books about education, the most recent being her 2010 work <em>The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.</em> Once a staunch advocate of programs like No Child Left Behind, she now speaks out against the trend of turning underperforming public schools over to private management, which she said is supported by major foundations, the U.S. Department of Education, a significant number of hedge-fund managers on Wall Street, and various billionaires.</p>
<p>“They’re treating public schools like shoe stores. They’re treating test scores in public schools like profits and losses,” Ravitch told the capacity audience at The Diana Center’s Event Oval. “If they don’t make a profit, their employees are no good,” she continued. “But public schools are not shoe stores. They are essential public services. The obligations of the officials—especially those that are in charge of the schools—are to give the [public schools] the help they need to improve. But we’re in this weird period where the people who are in charge take no responsibility to improve the schools they’re responsible for. Accountability only holds at the bottom and never migrates to the top.”</p>
<p>Ravitch noted that this is the first time in history that schools have been closed because of low test scores. Leaders are promoting charter schools but, on average, charter schools do not outperform regular public schools. She also asserted that charter schools don’t want the lowest performing students, such as those with disabilities or those who don’t speak English, because these youngsters will bring test scores down. “Why don’t [officials] find out why the [public] schools are struggling and provide the help and resources they need to help their children?” she asked.</p>
<p>Ravitch discussed the Parent Trigger Law passed in the California legislature in 2010 with other states following. The idea is if 51 percent of the parents in a school choose to privatize the school, the school will leave the district and become a charter school. “The problem is the school doesn’t really belong to the parents,” she said. “It belongs to the public. The public paid for it. The public built it. These are public schools.</p>
<p>“One of the most important reasons I changed my mind about so many of these ideas was I realized how every community needs basic public services.” Ravitch said privatization is linked with the movement for high-stakes accountability, noting that high-stakes testing produces pressure to narrow the curriculum and teach to the test.</p>
<p>“Teachers have lost their professional autonomy,” she asserted. “All teachers are expected to teach the same content with the same method with the same outcome.” She called teacher evaluations a “quagmire” and said merit pay initiatives have never been shown to be effective. “The main effect of judging teachers by the test scores of their students will be to demoralize teachers who realize they are being judged by factors most of which are out of their control,” added Ravitch.</p>
<p>Twenty-first century education should value creativity, divergent thinking, innovation, and idealism for students and teachers. “We must insist that every neighborhood has good community schools and that every public official who is put in charge of public education has an obligation to support that development,” she concluded. Teachers in the audience—many of them Barnard alumnae—agreed with Ravitch’s assessments, particularly about high-stakes testing and pay incentives.</p>
<p>“High-stakes testing is taking away a teacher’s ability to be creative, to be spontaneous, to engage students in authentic learning,” said Vanessa D’Egidio ’08. “It’s pretty much been boiled down to teaching to the test, a very formulaic approach to education.”</p>
<p>Brett Murphy ’07 said the first public school at which she taught was a pilot school for pay incentives. They won the award, but no one really paid attention to it. “It made no difference in the way that anyone was working,” said Murphy, who teaches 11th-grade U.S. history. “It’s not what you’re thinking about when you’re day-to-day working with kids.” <em>— by Lois Elfman ’80</em></p>
<p><em>Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett</em></p>
<p><a href="http://barnard.edu/headlines/public-good-faculty-reflect-lecture-diane-ravitch"><em>Click here to watch a video of the lecture</em></a></p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 08 May 2012 22:04:46 +0000dstaab12135 at http://www.barnard.eduPublicolor Tablinghttp://www.barnard.edu/events/publicolor-tabling
<div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Thursday, January 26, 2012</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventtimedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">11:30AM to 2PM</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Diana Center, Main Level (Lobby)</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-4" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">panel</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-38" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">activism</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-29" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">community</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-45" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">social justice</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Come meet representatives from Publicolor on Thursday, January 26th, from 11:30am to 2pm in the Diana Center Main Lobby!<br /><a href="http://www.publicolor.org/"><br />
Publicolor</a> engages at-risk students in their education and empowers them to plan and prepare for college and career through a continuum of creative programs that starts with teaching them to paint vibrant colors in their public schools and nearby community facilities.</p>
<p> What are we looking for?<br />
Tutors! We’re looking for fun and supportive volunteers to tutor 7th through 12th grade students and help them succeed in school. Volunteers generally help students with homework in subject areas such as Math, English, and Science.</p>
<p> If you would like more information, contact Ginger at (212) 213-6121 or <a href="mailto:ginger@publicolor.org">ginger@publicolor.org</a>.</p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000vchow9698 at http://www.barnard.eduStudents from The East Harlem School at Exodus House visit Barnard science labshttp://www.barnard.edu/headlines/students-east-harlem-school-exodus-house-visit-barnard-science-labs
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<p>A group of middle-school students recently got their first taste of college-level science during a visit hosted by Prof. Marisa Buzzeo ’01 to Barnard’s chemistry department. The seventh- and eighth-graders came from the East Harlem School at Exodus House, an independent school for students from low-income Harlem families.</p>
<p>Prof. Buzzeo gave the visiting students an introductory lecture on nanotechnology, a field that investigates how matter behaves differently on the nanometer (one-billionth of a meter) scale. They heard from some Barnard chemistry majors, and also learned about the wide range of careers available in the sciences.</p>
<p>They then had the opportunity to experiment with two different types of chemicals, both of which display unique physical traits due to properties on the nanoscale. First, they compared regular beach sand with “magic sand,” a substance that stays dry even when immersed in water. “It’s called “magic” because it is coated with hydrophobic molecules that cause the sand grains to repel water,” explained Buzzeo.</p>
<p>The second demonstration allowed students to explore ferrofluids, which are liquids with extremely cooperative magnetic properties. These interesting liquids, according to the professor, contain iron nanoparticles suspended in solution and form highly ordered structures in the presence of a magnet. </p>
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<p>“These are both great examples of the beauty and power of chemistry,” said Buzzeo, who spent a year as a visiting scientist at Columbia’s NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center before joining Barnard’s faculty. During that time, she was (and still remains) involved with the center’s Outreach, Education, and Diversity Committee, which aims to bring science education and awareness to local students. “I feel very strongly about the importance of exposing students to science at a young age, to get them interested and excited.”</p>
<p>“For most of our students, a career in science meant a career in medicine or other traditional fields. This trip opened up their minds to the many opportunities that a career in chemistry or another science can provide,” said Jennifer Feierman ’09, Buzzeo’s cousin and a development associate at the East Harlem School who, along with science teacher Ryan Whithall SEAS ’10, collaborated to make the visit happen. </p>
<p>“This kind of experience exposes them to a collegiate setting, which is particularly important as many of them are already making critical decisions about high school that will impact their eventual college and career choices,” said Feierman. “This kind of experience can be incredibly transformative for a middle-school student.”</p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:49:19 +0000avine9681 at http://www.barnard.eduEthel LeFrak '41, former Trustee, profiled by the Wall Street Journalhttp://www.barnard.edu/headlines/ethel-lefrak-41-former-trustee-profiled-wall-street-journal
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-36" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">education</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-1" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">philanthropy</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Ethel LeFrak '41, who served on Barnard's Board of Trustees from 1981-1985, is profiled by <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303848104576385923631338588.html"><em>The Wall Street Journal</em></a>. The article notes Mrs. LeFrak's lifelong support of arts and educational institutions including Barnard, and highlights a recent donation to Lighthouse International, a nonprofit that provides clinical services, rehabilitation, education and advocacy for the vision-impaired. This gift will support Lighthouse's child-development center. An excerpt from the article:</p>
<p>"In classroom visits to the school, Mrs. LeFrak was touched by the positive attitude of the visually impaired children and she was impressed with the teachers and staff who give the children strength and confidence, according to her daughter, Francine LeFrak.</p>
<p>"She thought if she could do anything to support them she wanted to do it," said Ms. LeFrak. "The idea of the school was right up her alley and my dad's alley.""</p>
<p>Read the full article <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303848104576385923631338588.html">here</a>.</p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:46:57 +0000avine5556 at http://www.barnard.eduReflection on the 2011 Young Women’s Leadership Workshop in South Africa by Reni Calister ’11http://www.barnard.edu/headlines/reflection-2011-young-womens-leadership-workshop-south-africa-reni-calister-11
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-19" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">feminism</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-10" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">global</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-53" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Africa</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” I was not expecting to be greeted by the words of Margaret Mead ’23 when I entered the African Leadership Academy; yet, there they were, on the wall beneath an enormous photo of one of the academy’s founders. Mead’s statement serves as an inspiration for the academy and its students. The school’s mission is to transform Africa into a prosperous continent by developing and supporting its future leaders; a dedicated student body and outstanding faculty set out to achieve this end. Every student enrolled at the ALA must greet any unfamiliar face they encounter on campus with a formal greeting. When I walked through the doors, a young lady smiled warmly, looked directly into my eyes, and said, “Hello, my name is Miranda Nyathi, and I am from South Africa.”</p>
<p>In a small classroom where every chair, pencil, and piece of paper are paid for by individual and corporate donations, I came face to face with the next generation of African leaders. The 15 young women that I met at the ALA sat in a circle, representing five high schools and 10 African countries, and showed me that leadership skills are useless without a cause where they can be applied. When I asked if they had any projects they wished to work on, each young woman replied with a detailed, prepared course of action for a project in her community. One student described a financial plan to start a center for battered women; another wanted to lead courses on entrepreneurship for single mothers.</p>
<p>The students that I met on March 14 were the most socially aware teenagers I have ever encountered. If I came back from South Africa with anything productive, it’s a word to American teens: Put down your cell phones and pick up a newspaper.</p>
<p><em>- Reni Calister ’11</em></p>
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<p><em>Reni was one of <a href="http://barnard.edu/headlines/office-internationa-program-announces-global-symposium-student-representatives">six students selected</a> to travel to South Africa to attend the Barnard’s <a href="http://barnard.edu/global/symposia/women-changing-africa">Third Annual Global Symposium</a> and assist with a <a href="http://barnard.edu/headlines/south-african-students-attend-barnard-2011-young-womens-leadership-workshop">leadership workshop</a> for high school students from around Johannesburg.</em></p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 11 May 2011 18:49:51 +0000mszarek5187 at http://www.barnard.eduAdia Revell ’05 builds thriving basketball program at ASAhttp://www.barnard.edu/headlines/adia-revell-%2705-builds-thriving-basketball-program-asa
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-36" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">education</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-34" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">leadership</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>The New York Daily News</em> profiles Adia Revell '05, coach of women's basketball team at <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/high_school/2011/01/17/2011-01-17_adia_revell_has_basketball_program_at_asa_thriving_wants_players_to_be_winners_o.html#ixzz1BP0nmGH8">ASA</a>. From the article:</p>
<p>"I'm not here to win a championship, use up a kid and have them leave here without learning anything," Revell added. "I'm trying to develop them as people."</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:49:19 +0000avine2369 at http://www.barnard.eduElizabeth Jane Handel ’12 shares gift of reading with incarcerated women and their childrenhttp://www.barnard.edu/headlines/elizabeth-jane-handel-%2712-shares-gift-reading-incarcerated-women-and-their-children
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-29" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">community</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-45" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">social justice</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-41" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">society</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>The New York Times</em> profiles five "Do-Gooders", including Barnard junior Elizabeth Jane Handel, founder of "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/education/edlife/09youngleaders-t.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=a%20book%20for%20mom&amp;st=cse">A Book From Mom</a>," a program that donates children’s books to women’s prisons. From the article:</p>
<p>"'I thought if I put books in the prison, mothers could select a book when their child came to visit and it would help ease the tension of the visits,' says Ms. Handel, now 21 and a junior at Barnard College."</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-92" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">adolescents</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-32" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">writing</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-11" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">literature</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-34" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">leadership</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><em>The New York Times</em> highlights a young adult novel inspired by esteemed writer <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/books/02zora.html">Zora Neale Hurston</a> '28, in which Hurston is a heroine girl detective set in her real hometown of Eatonville, Florida. From the <em>Time</em>s:</p>
<p>"Where is the black version of Caddie Woodlawn (a 19th-century Wisconsin tomboy) or Harriet the Spy (a 20th-century Upper East Sider), smart, spunky, fictional heroines for the tween crowd?<br />
<br />
Tanya Simon, a literary agent...answered by reaching back in time to Zora Neale Hurston, a canonical Harlem Renaissance writer, and imagining her as a girl detective. Ms. Simon and her close friend Victoria Bond put flesh on that idea with <em>Zora and Me</em>, an evocative mystery published last month by Candlewick Press."</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-55" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">behavior</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-16" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">technology</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>“Children at this age are so curious and they’re observing everything,” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/fashion/17TODDLERS.html">Tovah Klein tells <em>The New York Times</em></a>. “If you’re engrossed in this screen you’re not seeing or observing or taking it in.” </p>
<p><a href="http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/19/iphone-toy-of-choice-for-kids/">Watch Klein on CNN</a><em> </em>talking about pros and cons of allowing kids to play with iPhones and iPads.</p>
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</div></div></div>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0000smin1600 at http://www.barnard.eduVirtual Experimenthttp://www.barnard.edu/headlines/virtual-experiment
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-36" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">education</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-13" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">science</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><img alt="Vicky Cobb" class="image-inline_small" src="https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/styles/inline_small/public/images/inline/vicky_cobb.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 1em 1em 0pt;" title="" /> Vicki Cobb has pondered many questions in her 89 science books for children. When the economic downturn forced many American schools to curtail author visits, a new question emerged: How would she, and other nonfiction authors for children, manage without the additional income from these speaking engagements? Cobb, a former middle school science teacher, is not fazed by challenges. She knows how to make tea bags fly, bars of soap erupt, and how to collect cosmic sand. And so, at a time of life when others might settle into retirement, she’s embarked on a new experiment—launching a Web company.</p>
<p>“I’m so cutting edge for an old lady,” jokes Cobb, a resident of Greenburgh, New York, who, during an hour and a half-long interview, speaks animatedly about a wide range of topics, jumping effortlessly from Galileo to grandchildren, from skiing to sexism.</p>
<p>But she seems most spirited when discussing INK THINK TANK, which she refers to as her baby. With the online venture, Cobb hopes to continue her mission to improve the quality of education across the country, while also helping authors improve their bottom line. “Children’s nonfiction is not a good way to make a living,” she says. In more buoyant economic times, Cobb would supplement her income by visiting as many as 50 schools each year.</p>
<p>INK THINK TANK, which includes a cadre of about two dozen nonfiction authors of children’s books, is designed to function as a resource for teachers. It includes two main features: 1) A free database of books which are aligned with national standards and are deemed high-quality by Cobb; 2) A program of virtual author visits, which link teachers with a writer. The program also enables students to interact with the authors for a fraction of the cost of a live meeting. But can children really relate to a figure talking on a screen? No problem, according to Cobb. She recently spoke to a school in Louisiana, she says, where her image was projected onto a tremendous screen on the wall. When she was finished, the children felt they knew her so well, they “wanted to take a picture with me on the screen.”</p>
<p>In her prolific career as a science writer, Cobb’s central goal has been to pique children’s curiosity. She believes that “the school culture is such that as the kids get older they ask questions because they want answers for the test. I want kids to dance a little with the mystery.” To persuade children to do that dance, Cobb engages in a style that is both entertaining and educational in her books and public speaking. In her most recent book, What’s The Big Idea? Amazing Science Questions for the Curious Kid, published in June, Cobb escorts readers through much of elementary school science, from physics to chemistry to biology, posing and answering questions. The language is simple and playful, geared to children, but can be informative to adults who haven’t grappled with such topics in years. For example, the chapter, “Why Doesn’t The Sun Burn?” begins with this sentence, “The secret of the sun’s constant energy is that it is not fire.” The titles of Cobb’s vast library of works suggest her light-hearted style: Science Experiments You Can Eat, her first big hit, was published in 1972. Among her many works, she’s written Lots of Rot, The Scoop on Ice Cream, and I Face The Wind.</p>
<p>Cobb understands persistence, having reached adulthood at a time when women were often not welcomed in fields like science and math. Growing up she was told: “Girls don’t do science.” It wasn’t until she transferred to Barnard College from the University of Wisconsin in her junior year, that she could pursue her interest without questions. She did encounter sexism in the almost entirely male classes she took at Columbia, but “the big ideas of science dazzled me,” she recalls. More than five decades later, Cobb retains that initial amazement, and it is this sense of wonder that she hopes to instill in students today, through her books—and her presentations, both real and virtual.</p>
<p>On her personal Web site, vickicobb. com, viewers meet an animated caricature of Cobb, winking and smiling, hinting at the adventures ahead if you dare to delve into the world of science.</p>
<p>-<em>by Elicia Brown '90</em></p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000sgw21178283 at http://www.barnard.eduThe Magic of 25http://www.barnard.edu/headlines/magic-25
<div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>This essay originally appeared on Sydnie Mosley’s blog, lovestutter.blogspot.com, on August 4, 2010.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="image-inline_medium" src="http://barnard.edu/../../sites/default/files/styles/inline_medium/public/images/inline/barnard_roadsigns.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 1em 1em 0pt; width: 259px; height: 518px;" title="" />In the summer 2010 edition of Barnard Magazine, President Debora Spar writes about the recent reunion with an intriguingly insightful point of view. She writes, “What struck me the most ... was that everyone still identified so strongly with their 25-year-old selves; the women they were before their lives took shape.” When my good friend recently returned engaged from her trip abroad, she spoke fondly of the future life she imagined with her fiancée. This life included eventually moving and living permanently overseas where she would build a career and raise her babies. It hit me then that this woman with whom I’d spent countless hours in dorm rooms, classrooms, libraries... The woman with whom I’d spent countless nights running the streets of New York City partying and days exploring... The woman with whom I’d plotted and planned to save Barnard from itself, only to then plot and plan to create a better world starting right here in Harlem, USA... She was not going to spend her future life with me at all. I realized that despite all our efforts to maintain our friendship, our lives are on divergent paths, and we will make the world a better place, but not as next-door neighbors with our children playing in each other’s yards. Our friendship will be defined by our 20s and at some point down the road when she lives abroad and I am right here, we will remember and think of each other best at this moment in time.</p>
<p>President Spar writes of her own friend whom she met in grad school “before we had our jobs, our babies, our homes.... Before either of us had met the men who would eventually become our husbands.” It is this time that she calls magical, when the whole world is open.</p>
<p>And I feel the magic, but it weighs on me heavily. The weight is of big dreams, with no road map to achieve them. God, how do I do what I love and make money enough to live? The weight is of uncertainty in relationships. Will the next man I meet be my husband? The weight is a gnawing sense of urgency, because I want to know the future. I’m dying to know what my reality will be one year from now, five years, 20 years...</p>
<p>It’s funny how we spend our 20s; how we engage with the magic time trying to decipher our futures. I have a friend who has moved into an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond. She has become Debra Barone on a trial basis (she and her significant other just moved in together—not married) to see if she wants to be with Ray and his intrusive mother forever. Another friend of mine, a month shy of 30, is itching to be settled in career and family life. She’s recently resolved that if she sits still, as opposed to moving, chasing and grinding, that she might actually be able to put down some roots and create the life she wants to have.</p>
<p>Regardless of the choices we make now in our youth, laying the foundation to further our adult lives, and whether the friendships of now carry on the way we would like, I imagine I will always remember this time in life and the people close to me now fondly.</p>
<p>Like President Spar, the friends I have made since I moved onto Barnard’s campus in August 2003 will always be 18, 21, 25 to me. We will be “caught in that magical moment of time when nothing has quite yet happened, but everything is possible.” Although we will have made defining choices in our lives, we will be forever young when we see each other. We will be able to remember and hold onto the magic of 25 and bring it with us into the present. But I hope the magic of 20-something potential will be freeing, not heavy at a time when more limits or responsibilities exist. It has to be possible.</p>
<p>-<em>by Sydnie Mosley '07, illustration by Jennifer Lew</em></p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000sgw21178292 at http://www.barnard.eduBetter Fortunes?http://www.barnard.edu/events/better-fortunes
<div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">School Enrollment and Living Arrangements of Migrant Youth in Six Western Countries</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventdatedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Tues., September 14, 2010</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventtimedisplay field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">6 PM</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-eventlocation field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Sulzberger Parlor</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomyevents field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/event-type-3" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">lecture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-taxonomytopics field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-36" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">education</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/topics-25" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">migration</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/topics-91" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">youth</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Compared with native-born youth, migrant youth are more likely to live in households without parents or with extended families, and to have lower rates of school enrollment. Variations in the living arrangements of youth with migration backgrounds in six industrialized countries—France, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Israel, and the United States—demonstrate how conventional operational definitions that exclude children who do not live with their parents not only distort estimates of migrant youth, but also exclude the most vulnerable from the data. Marta Tienda is professor of sociology, public affairs, and demographic studies and founding director of the program in Latino studies at Princeton University.</p>
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